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) . ) 3 SEQMT ~ | Ln , a honorable Eli Muhammad, you are the most dogmatic cat on the scene today,” and i've never known you to be opposed to twisting arms or, for that matter, necks, In many ways your letter struck ge as being an echo and rehash of the charges brought against the ‘party by the bootlickers before the McClellan Committee. And _ gince you chose this moment to denounce the party, we--and I am sure many other people outside the party---must look upon your _letter in this light. The only point in your letter that I think is really you is the one about coalition with whites, because it has been this point on which our differences have turned from the very beginning. WFO 100-43503 C "You have never been able to distinguish the history of the Black Panther Party from the history of the organization of which you were once the chairman---the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is understandable that you can have such fears of black organizations being controlled, or partly controlled, by whites, because most of your fears in SNCC were spent under precise- ly those conditions. But the Black Panther Party has never been in that situation. Because we have never had to wrest control of our organization out of the hands of the whites, we have not been shackled with the type of paranoid fear that was developed by you cats in SNCC, Therefore we are able to sit down with whites and hammer out solutions to our common problems without trembling in our boots about whether or not we might get taken over in the process. It has always seemed to me that you belittle the intelligence of your black brothers and sisters when y6u constantly warn them that , they had better beware of white folks, After all, you are not the only black person out of Babylon who has been victimized by white racism. But you sound as though you are scared of white people, as though gou are still running away from the slave-catchers who will lay hands on your body and dump you in a bag. "As a matter of fact, it has been precisely your nebulous enunciation of Black Power that has provided the power structure with its new weapon against Aur people. The Black Panther Party shave seized upon it and telrned it into the rationale for Black ‘Capitalism. With James/farmer of the Nixon Administration to pre- “=gide over the implem ation of Black Capitalism under the slogan “ . — S ‘ ge